The Winery Vista Alegre of Porto of Duriense

Winery Vista Alegre
The winery offers 37 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
This estate is part of the Vallegre.
It is ranked in the top 33 of the estates of Duriense.
It is located in Porto in the region of Duriense

The Winery Vista Alegre is one of the world's great estates. It offers 37 wines for sale in of Porto to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Vista Alegre wines

Looking for the best Winery Vista Alegre wines in Porto among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Vista Alegre wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Vista Alegre wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top natural sweet wines of Winery Vista Alegre

Food and wine pairings with a natural sweet wine of Winery Vista Alegre

How Winery Vista Alegre wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, mature and hard cheese or sweet desserts such as recipes of beef bobotie, melt-in-the-mouth omelette with tomatoes, asparagus and comté or king's cake with frangipane.

Organoleptic analysis of natural sweet wines of Winery Vista Alegre

On the nose the natural sweet wine of Winery Vista Alegre. often reveals types of flavors of vanilla, chocolate or caramel and sometimes also flavors of raisin, non oak or earth. In the mouth the natural sweet wine of Winery Vista Alegre. is a powerful mainly marked by the residual sugar.

The best vintages in the natural sweet wines of Winery Vista Alegre

  • 2006With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 1995With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2017With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 1999With an average score of 4.06/5
  • 2014With an average score of 4.06/5
  • 2008With an average score of 4.05/5

The grape varieties most used in the natural sweet wines of Winery Vista Alegre.

  • Touriga Nacional
  • Touriga Franca
  • Tinta Roriz
  • Tinta Barroca
  • Tinto Cao
  • Rabigato

Discovering the wine region of Porto

One of the world's oldest fortified wines: fortified with grape spirit during fermentation, keeping its residual sugars. Opulent style, long on the palate, notes of candied black fruits, cocoa, fig, walnut, coffee and spices. Four styles: young fruity Ruby (cherry, blackberry), Tawny aged oxidatively in cask (caramel, hazelnut, bitter orange), age-worthy LBV and Vintage, White as aperitif. Grapes: Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz.

Douro Valley, aged at Vila Nova de Gaia.

The top sweet wines of Winery Vista Alegre

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Vista Alegre

How Winery Vista Alegre wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of sweet desserts such as recipes of plain cupcakes.

Organoleptic analysis of sweet wines of Winery Vista Alegre

On the nose the sweet wine of Winery Vista Alegre. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, oak.

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Winery Vista Alegre

  • 2008With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.77/5

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Winery Vista Alegre.

  • Moscato
  • Moscatel Galego

Discover the grape variety: Touriga franca

Aromatic and refined reds with an elegant structure, featuring raspberry, blackberry, rose, lavender, cistus and gentle spice aromas. Soft tannins and silky balance that smooths blends. Essential partner to Touriga Nacional in great Port wines (Vintage, LBV, Tawny) and modern dry Douro DOC. Native Portuguese variety, the most planted in the Douro, related to Touriga Nacional.

The top red wines of Winery Vista Alegre

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Vista Alegre

How Winery Vista Alegre wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or lamb such as recipes of pasta bolognese, tagliatelle with fresh salmon or traditional lamb couscous (from algeria).

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Vista Alegre

  • 2010With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2008With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.60/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Vista Alegre.

  • Touriga Nacional
  • Touriga Franca
  • Tinta Roriz
  • Tinto Cao
  • Souzao

The word of the wine: Chaptalization

The addition of sugar at the time of fermentation of the must, an ancient practice, but theorized by Jean-Antoine Chaptal at the dawn of the 19th century. The sugar is transformed into alcohol and allows the natural degree of the wine to be raised in a weak or cold year, or - more questionably - when the winegrower has a harvest that is too large to obtain good maturity.

The top white wines of Winery Vista Alegre

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Vista Alegre

How Winery Vista Alegre wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, appetizers and snacks or lean fish such as recipes of wok of pointed cabbage with shrimps and lemongrass bo bun style, baked tortilla or cod with chorizo.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Vista Alegre

  • 0With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.40/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Vista Alegre.

  • Gouveio
  • Rabigato
  • Viosinho
  • Malvasia Fina
  • Cerceal Branco
  • Arinto de Bucelas

Discover the grape variety: Tinta Amarela

Structured, intensely coloured reds with a dark ruby color, firm tannins and a dense palate, offering intense aromas of black fruits (blackberry, blackcurrant), plum, black cherry, spices, pepper, aromatic herbs and balsamic notes. Fine cellaring potential. Traditional component of great Douro DOC reds, Porto, as well as Alentejo DOC and Tejo DOC wines. Portuguese synonym for trincadeira (or trincadeira preta), a signature indigenous Portuguese variety.

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Discover the grape variety: Gouveio

Structured, aromatic dry whites with a pale golden colour, an ample palate and preserved acidity, showing refined aromas of citrus (lemon, orange), yellow fruits (pear, peach), white flowers (acacia) and schistous mineral notes. Fine ageing and cellaring potential. An essential component of the great whites of Douro DOC and white Port. Portuguese synonym of Galician Godello, indigenous variety of the Douro and Trás-os-Montes.

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